Final pieces of Knit

Tutorial and new technics

I was really confused about how to relate my drawing to my work last week. Julia told me the key point is the colours. It helped me a lot. After tutorial with her, I started to understand how to connect the link between research and samples. And I have some rough idea to make samples as well.

Julia also shown some new technics to us.

I love knitting

I really enjoyed this technical block, and I will consider to chose it as my main subject.

I have learnt some amazing technics in first week.

    

I also watched some hand-knitting videos in the Internet and practiced some skills.

Enjoying the knit block

Someone told me that If I enjoyed the weave block, I would be interested in knit block. I did enjoy the knit block today.

Before starting, I noticed the nice yarn wrapping under the table. It is like a record of every process we made. I think it's beautiful and meaningful.

Our tutor Tim showed us some basic technic. It was quite clearly and easy to understand. However, I found the most important thing is choosing the yarn that is not easy to broke off while using knitting machine.

It was so annoying when the yarn is broken.

I'm really looking forward to getting more technical skills in the rest of this block after practicing.

I also had fun in the hand-knitting. The tutor is so nice and patient.

Unit1 Reflective Statement

During Rough Guide project, I think my research was quite good on photography and displaying them. My opinion about my research area Southbank was well shown, and I also presented how I visit the area. I focused on interesting textures I found. However, I didn't do much on drawing. It will be more plentiful if I draw more for research. For the first blog task, I found that it was interesting and inspiring. I chose photographs I took as materials. In my opinion, it is more direct and clearer to present my idea. I didn't try many different kinds of media during the project. It's my weakness that needs to be improved next time. During this project, I didn't get many technical skills. But I was inspired when I looked at other's works. I have learnt how to relate my research to my idea, and how to present my idea as well. My idea is exploring the details that we are easy to ignore. The picture I chose was a shadow of vitreous frame. It was well related to my Rough Guide and my idea. The time management in this unit was satisfying. I kept recording the notes and my feelings in my blog. I also have well understood the Health and Safety advice and attended the induction on this.

Inspiring drawing class

We drew some pictures in a fast way today. Each drawing should be finish in 30 seconds. I didn't finish most of my drawings today, but still got some nice pictures.

Then I received some feedbacks from my peers. It was helpful to consider other's opinion for your works. I had got some advice for next technical block from our tutor as well. She gave me the advice about what kinds of yarn I can use in knit block. I was inspired.

Drawing by making models

The drawing class today was quite interesting. It gave me a feeling like we were drawing by making models.

We were asked to bring a hat, a piece of one of our own garment and a shoe from someone else as materials. For the first part of class, we need to make 3D model of one object with newspaper. I chose the heel and made a model. 

It's also interesting and inspiring to look at my peer's work.

The next exercise was back to drawing with pens as well our imaginations. We needed to draw a person or animal wearing one object, there must be some background on the drawing.

The last part was the most interesting in my opinion. The requirement was that we had to connect one object to architecture or landscape using newspaper models. I imagined the heel was a slide, and made a model to slide down it.

I saw lots of interesting work like English breakfast, ice cream and a bowl with chocolate. I believe all my classmates had fun in this class.

First week after Christmas holiday

I was working on stitch block this week, which I think is a hard technical block. At first, I was confused about how to develop my drawing into a sample. After practice and tutorials, I made some progress. By the end of this week, I decided to develop one of my samples further to be my final piece.

It was great to see a wide range of materials, and it was interesting to make samples with these materials as well. However, I didn't enjoy this block that much honestly.